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I've been watching the show The West Wing on Amazon prime- and noticed a bunch of Apple product placements. The show started around the time Steve came back to save Apple in mid-1999. At that point, Steve Jobs had decreed that the apple should be right side up to the user when the device is closed.
Anyhow, the Mac laptops they've been showing on the show had this infamous upside-down apple, as shown in the above photo of Woz. Steve Jobs, realizing that his logo was improperly shown upside down on TV, changed his mind and reorientated the logo right-side up to onlookers with the Titanium PowerBook. I had been watching to see when the first right side up apple shown on Mac laptop would be. Here it is:
The West Wing
Season 2, Episode 17
March 14, 2001
http://www.amazon.com/The-West-Wing-Complete-Second/dp/B0047MYL0C
Mac OS X was released the next week March 24, 2001. So this was a major ad buy for a company that was on the road to recovery, but not a mega-giant company. Weird that the laptop looks almost exactly like any Mac laptop today.
For more on the upside-down logo thing: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/22/tech/gaming-gadgets/apple-upside-down-logo/index.html
And here's a link to the History of the PowerBook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook
I've been watching the show The West Wing on Amazon prime- and noticed a bunch of Apple product placements. The show started around the time Steve came back to save Apple in mid-1999. At that point, Steve Jobs had decreed that the apple should be right side up to the user when the device is closed.
Anyhow, the Mac laptops they've been showing on the show had this infamous upside-down apple, as shown in the above photo of Woz. Steve Jobs, realizing that his logo was improperly shown upside down on TV, changed his mind and reorientated the logo right-side up to onlookers with the Titanium PowerBook. I had been watching to see when the first right side up apple shown on Mac laptop would be. Here it is:
The West Wing
Season 2, Episode 17
March 14, 2001
http://www.amazon.com/The-West-Wing-Complete-Second/dp/B0047MYL0C
Mac OS X was released the next week March 24, 2001. So this was a major ad buy for a company that was on the road to recovery, but not a mega-giant company. Weird that the laptop looks almost exactly like any Mac laptop today.
For more on the upside-down logo thing: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/22/tech/gaming-gadgets/apple-upside-down-logo/index.html
And here's a link to the History of the PowerBook: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook
